Status of The Catalina Sky Survey for Near Earth Asteroids

The University of Arizona's Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) is beginning its third decade of operations, and continues to be the most productive Near Earth Object (NEO) survey to date. CSS has discovered 46% of the known NEO catalog, including over a third of NEOs with a diameter of approximately 140 meters or larger. Recent upgrades to both survey instruments (the 1.5 meter and Schmidt telescopes) have significantly increased CSS's annual discovery rate, which is on track to exceed 1,000 by year's end. In June, CSS also discovered another small asteroid (2018 LA) prior to Earth impact. We have also increased our focus on NEO follow-up in support of the community's discovery efforts, by remotely operating the CSS 1.0-m telescope a full 24 nights per lunation, and by operating the Steward Observatory Kuiper 61" telescope up to 9 nights per lunation. We will discuss improvements to the planning and scheduling software, ongoing efforts to coordinate community follow-up, and progress toward reprocessing archival data and making it publicly available through NASA's Planetary Data System. Catalina Sky Survey gratefully acknowledges sustained support from NASA, currently under grant #80NSSC18K1130.